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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-04 11:16:01 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2012-07-14 20:17:44 -0400
commita2080a67abe9e314f9e9c2cc3a4a176e8a8f8793 (patch)
tree47506f87de3ec08934d3333980b29a15cc86e764 /drivers/char
parent902c098a3663de3fa18639efbb71b6080f0bcd3c (diff)
random: create add_device_randomness() interface
Add a new interface, add_device_randomness() for adding data to the random pool that is likely to differ between two devices (or possibly even per boot). This would be things like MAC addresses or serial numbers, or the read-out of the RTC. This does *not* add any actual entropy to the pool, but it initializes the pool to different values for devices that might otherwise be identical and have very little entropy available to them (particularly common in the embedded world). [ Modified by tytso to mix in a timestamp, since there may be some variability caused by the time needed to detect/configure the hardware in question. ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c28
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 315feb1f59f3..df3358ab5b99 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -125,11 +125,20 @@
* The current exported interfaces for gathering environmental noise
* from the devices are:
*
+ * void add_device_randomness(const void *buf, unsigned int size);
* void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,
* unsigned int value);
* void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq, int irq_flags);
* void add_disk_randomness(struct gendisk *disk);
*
+ * add_device_randomness() is for adding data to the random pool that
+ * is likely to differ between two devices (or possibly even per boot).
+ * This would be things like MAC addresses or serial numbers, or the
+ * read-out of the RTC. This does *not* add any actual entropy to the
+ * pool, but it initializes the pool to different values for devices
+ * that might otherwise be identical and have very little entropy
+ * available to them (particularly common in the embedded world).
+ *
* add_input_randomness() uses the input layer interrupt timing, as well as
* the event type information from the hardware.
*
@@ -646,6 +655,25 @@ static void set_timer_rand_state(unsigned int irq,
}
#endif
+/*
+ * Add device- or boot-specific data to the input and nonblocking
+ * pools to help initialize them to unique values.
+ *
+ * None of this adds any entropy, it is meant to avoid the
+ * problem of the nonblocking pool having similar initial state
+ * across largely identical devices.
+ */
+void add_device_randomness(const void *buf, unsigned int size)
+{
+ unsigned long time = get_cycles() ^ jiffies;
+
+ mix_pool_bytes(&input_pool, buf, size, NULL);
+ mix_pool_bytes(&input_pool, &time, sizeof(time), NULL);
+ mix_pool_bytes(&nonblocking_pool, buf, size, NULL);
+ mix_pool_bytes(&nonblocking_pool, &time, sizeof(time), NULL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_device_randomness);
+
static struct timer_rand_state input_timer_state;
/*